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...know I’m not the best host in the world, but really, all it takes is a little bit of effort. When my friends came to visit freshman year, I slept on the La-Z-Boy and let them take my bed. My friends usually return the favor, too—when I come to visit and need to crash on a couch or a floor, they’re there...
...migration theme is amplified in a short story about a retired cane worker who travels to Australia to visit his son. Author Brij Lal, a Fiji-born, Canberra-based historian, says 120,000 Indian Fijians have emigrated since 1987; 313,000 remain. Among the book's most poignant images, and the only ones in color, are snaps sent home by those who've moved on - to big cars in California, snow in Canada. Their forebears saw Fiji as a destination; it's turned out to be only a stopover...
...fail to punctually perform their teaching responsibilities before, during, and after the school year, students suffer. Unfortunately, a disturbingly large number of Harvard faculty are currently shirking their responsibility by not posting course syllabi online in a timely manner. On Wednesday, students working for the textbook discount website CrimsonReading.org visited the webpages of 231 popular courses and found only 42 syllabi. That only 18 percent of professors cared enough to post their syllabi is, quite simply, pathetic. This is troubling given the crucial role online syllabi play in students’ pre-shopping week planning. Many students depend on syllabi...
President Bush himself went to meet Sattar and his tribal loyalists during his surprise visit to Iraq 10 days ago. Sattar's "Awakening" movement, U.S. leaders hoped, would spread across other parts of Iraq and turn more and more tribes against radical insurgents. Some U.S. officials even suggested that Sattar might lead a political faction in Baghdad as part of a sitting government. Those hopes ended today with news that Sattar was dead. Insurgents killed the sheik the same way they did his American friend, with a roadside bomb near his compound that left two of Sattar's bodyguards dead...